{"id":466,"date":"2017-06-06T21:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=466"},"modified":"2017-06-06T21:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:50:02","slug":"diamondbacks-axis-and-overdrive-pedals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"DiamondBack&#8217;s Axis and Overdrive Pedals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happily used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Diamondback-Bicycles-Trail-Mountain-Pedal\/dp\/B01BGGQAEG\">DiamondBack Axis MTB\u00a0SPD pedals<\/a> (344 grams) for almost a year, until\u00a0the bearings escaped from the drive side pedal (heh, Amazon says they weigh 352 grams with all the bearings present). After contacting DiamondBack&#8217;s excellent support staff, they offered a set of replacement pedals, which I received less than a week later.<\/p>\n<p>While I was waiting for the new pedals to arrive, I tossed on a very old and used set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shimano-PD-M520L-Sport-Pedals-Cleats\/dp\/B000WYAENC\">Shimano PD-M520 pedals<\/a>, which weigh in at 375 grams. When the new pedals arrived, DiamondBack surprised me with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Diamondback-Overdrive-Mountain-Clipless-Pedals\/dp\/B00MJYQN8I\">Overdrive\u00a0MTB pedals<\/a>, which are\u00a0also SPD, but sport sealed cartridge bearings and weigh in at a feather-light 295 grams. I quickly installed the Overdrives this evening\u00a0and\u00a0based on the brief post-installation test ride, they spin\u00a0smooth. Will report more later, but I would say the Axis pedals were\u00a0fine until I had logged about 5,000 miles on them. The Axis pedals also weren&#8217;t as smooth to click in and out of as my PD-M520&#8217;s,\u00a0so I&#8217;m curious to see how the Overdrive&#8217;s compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happily used DiamondBack Axis MTB\u00a0SPD pedals (344 grams) for almost a year, until\u00a0the bearings escaped from the drive side pedal (heh, Amazon says they weigh 352 grams with all the bearings present). After contacting DiamondBack&#8217;s excellent support staff, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}